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BTW: why´s the Duke the CHEAPEST?

More jazz musicians from the "African-Americans in US stamps" collection:

Back to the topic.... There were two issues of the USA Armstrong stamp: Sep 1, 1995 & Sep 16, 1995

Rooster: I can´t see your attachment of Django... same happened when I inserted it! ooops... you´ve deleted your post!

Django (France, 1993) EDIT: I couldn´t download the image nor insert a link to the photo... anyway that stamp is here: Django Reinhardt Photographs

More Satchmo: Gabon, 1972 Rwanda, 1972 Upper Volta, 1972 Dominica, 1988 St. Vincent, 1989 USA, 1995

Just snooping around, I found these stamps with the image of the great Satchmo: 1971 Chad Senegal Mali Niger Not being a stamp collector, I´d like to see more stamps with jazz musicians Could you help me and bring here more pictures of them?

Incredible site, brownie! Thanks a lot!

brownie: How much duplication is there between the Mosaic and the JSP boxes?

His only record as a leader:

Yeah, in such capital works as "MingusX5" or "The black saint and the sinner lady". And in "Dinasty", "Mingus revisited" or the Complete Town Hall concert.

I haven´t heard any of the Fremeaux "Complete Django" releases, nor the Proper & JSP boxes but... the Mosaic set is simply amazing!

for the song... and for the complete Bohemia set!

His business card

North Sea Jazz Den Haag, july 1995

Django Reinhardt - Mosaic Set

Ooops, I hadn´t found it a as a CD. Thanks, Chuck!

Do you know if that Good Time Jazz LP is on CD?

Re: Willie The Lion Smith Is there any way - apart from Classics 1938/40 - to get his famous Commodore 1939 solos on CD?

Any more Joe Turner recommendations?

In his memoirs, Count Basie recalls a legendary left-handed pianist, Seminole (Basie actually doesn´t mention Seminole was a stride pianist, and this story was in Tulsa and not in Harlem, but it happened by the times stride piano was all the rage). Seminole could play with his left hand all that Basie could play with his right hand... and Basie was cut in from the club he was playing at! I haven´t seen any mention of this player in the tomes I´ve perused. Any help?

Many of these legendary "ticklers" were under recorded (or never recorded!) Stephen "The Beetle" Henderson was one of those myths, and the only two surviving tracks by him proced from an Art Hodes radio show around 1940. This show was recorded (transcription disc), and it was included in an Euphonic LP (Paul Affeldt´s label) called "Kings of Harlem Stride", which included rare tracks by James P., Fats and these two tracks by the Beetle! These two tracks are James P. Johnson´s tunes - "Carolina Shout" and "Keep Off The Grass" - and he plays both in the key of B flat. Johnson had written them in G and F. As far as I know, this LP (which, of course, I do not own) has never been reissued on CD. In his liner notes, Affeldt included all of the -- very slim -- biographical information he'd been able to collect on the Beetle, almost entirely consisting of a list of references to him by the other stride masters. Apparently, Henderson was notably flakey about showing up for gigs. He was scheduled to finally have a recording session, and he never showed up... cause he died!

Portrait of Art Tatum and Phil Moore, Downbeat, N.Y.

Portrait of Art Tatum, Rochester, ca. May 1946]

Portrait of Art Tatum, Vogue Room, N.Y.